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What EPA Wants You to Know About Nail Salons
National Journal ^ | May 12, 2015 | Clare Foran

Posted on 05/13/2015 7:36:47 AM PDT by Zakeet

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy will take a trip to a San Francisco nail salon Wednesday—a visit intended to shine a spotlight on health risks posed by the industry.

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Nail polish and other products found in salons contain an array of chemicals that may pose a threat to public health and the environment. Without proper handling, exposure to chemicals such as formaldehyde can lead to difficulty breathing, skin irritation and other health problems.

EPA already has put together a federal working group and doled out grants to organizations tackling the industry's public health and environmental impact created by the use of chemicals in nail salons, McCarthy noted.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: california; environment; epa; ginamccarthy; grooming; homosexualagenda; indiana; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; mikepence; rfra; sanfrancisco; vietnam
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To: Gaffer

Married with three children


21 posted on 05/13/2015 8:02:37 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Man husband? Still looks like gay to me. What’s ‘hubby’ look like?


22 posted on 05/13/2015 8:03:37 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Zakeet

Who is that man in the picture?


23 posted on 05/13/2015 8:03:55 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Really? You think that man is gay?


24 posted on 05/13/2015 8:04:39 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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To: Zakeet
Nail polish and other products found in salons contain an array of chemicals

Ya' . . . I seen 'dat in the Constratution . . . Article . . . hmmmmm . . .

25 posted on 05/13/2015 8:05:32 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Zakeet

Male or Female . . . ? He/she/it is wearing a wedding type ring

26 posted on 05/13/2015 8:07:17 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Michael.SF.

You sure do need one where I go. RME


27 posted on 05/13/2015 8:11:44 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Zakeet

The workers? They choose to work there. What about the clients. They are exposed to used and re-used tools and products. I’ve never even seen workers wash their hands in between clients. I’ve stopped going to those things. Utter filth.


28 posted on 05/13/2015 8:15:10 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Zakeet

That’s really Phil Donohue, right?


29 posted on 05/13/2015 8:15:47 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Gosh, why the sudden interest in nail salons, eh?

Want all the women in the country to go ‘lumberjack’?

Next up, a campaign against leg-shaving, pit-shaving, lip-waxing, hair-dying, y’know the really important stuff.

Probably related to illegal aliens — because, y’know, nail salons are the MAIN CAUSE of the huge flood of illegals. Other than the ones Obama and his cadre recruited in Central America and the jihadist areas of the Middle East and Africa.

Also, if you’re against this stupid wrongheaded campaign against nail salons, it just proves you’re one of those white-privileged, anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-environment, pro-animal-torture gun-totin’ right-wingers!

How Tippi Hedren made Vietnamese refugees into nail salon magnates
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3286067/posts

Cuomo Orders Emergency Measures to Protect Workers at Nail Salons
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3288580/posts


30 posted on 05/13/2015 8:18:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Zakeet
As a sufferer from emphasema, I can attest to having difficulty breathing in the tiniest of dust conditions

Which, in my opinion, is where they're getting all of this "some people may have difficulty breathing"

UP FRONT ... I was an asshole and smoked heavily all my life until a few years ago and it is my fault I suffer .... and iIvehemently protest and reject all these "some people have difficulty breathing" reports that are, IMO, designed to put a burden, a tax or shut down completely some American enterprize ..... Yeah, I know ... they're all Vietnamese

I never hear of Vietnamese being any kind of trouble here in the US and I DO hear of their kids excelling in school

(just to put THAT comment to rest)

Peaple that have a hard time breathing are already dead ... they just haven't dropped yet

Please don't come at me with athsmatic kids and whatnot .... YOU know who and what I'm talking about

31 posted on 05/13/2015 8:19:32 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: jsanders2001

Amen to that! Hard to believe how is now a federal issue, but then again not. Shock & Awe...

I didn’t know the history behind why so many nail salons are operated by Vietnamese people - did you know this?

http://news.yahoo.com/hollywood-star-made-vietnamese-refugees-beauticians-223603963.html


32 posted on 05/13/2015 8:26:18 AM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: onedoug

I had to deal with fungus but having done (it’s been gone for years) so I still go in and get my nails done once every two weeks. But, and heres the key, I don’t go to any salon that used power tools. No drills. Most if not all of the Vietnamese salons do. I did once and that’s probably where I got the fungus. And when the woman who does my nails (I’ve known her for 25 years) was pregnant, I lectured her about the chemicals. She just laughed at me. The kids are teenagers now and seem okay.


33 posted on 05/13/2015 8:33:10 AM PDT by Mercat (Release the HildeKraken)
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To: Zakeet

Nail salons and tattoo parlors are about the only small businesses left, better kill them too. They already took care of the tanning salons with Obola care.


34 posted on 05/13/2015 8:44:58 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Gaffer

Off-topic, but we have a lesbian couple lving three houses up the street....and they’re both conservative, and 0bama bashers — a first in my little experience with that type.


35 posted on 05/13/2015 8:47:29 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: ErnBatavia

I bet they don’t voice those opinions to their contemporaries.


36 posted on 05/13/2015 9:05:27 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: VTenigma

To me, the government’s action on any of this correlates directly with what they perceive is the dominant race or ethnicity of the typical operators of the businesses.

If nail salons are largely Asian represented, then they’d probably group them in with what they’ve already done with tanning salons. Tattoo parlors (maybe weave salons, too) I’m not so sure.


37 posted on 05/13/2015 9:08:14 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Zakeet

Market dictators!!!


38 posted on 05/13/2015 9:27:45 AM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Zakeet

Tell her you work for the CIA and you don’t have to listen to her. She falls for that.


39 posted on 05/13/2015 10:18:17 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Zakeet

Probably her first visit to a nail salon.


40 posted on 05/13/2015 10:22:25 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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